Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1887-03-05
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

LEGAL PHRAsEoLoGY is proverbially OBJ
scure, but the lawyers must have been more
than usually Opaque who drew up certain
cause in the regulations OF corporation
owning new bridge in Boston. The clause
ehacts that ''the said proprietors shall meet
annually on the first Tuesday in June. pro-
! Vlded the same does not fall on sunday"
THE Mexican women are as much devoted
| TO black dresses still as women in the States
/ were for very many years after the civil war.
| IL Is only within two or three years indeed
| tnat BLACK has ceased to be nearly universal
| ior street wear. 1t will be hard 10 get women
| pack again as class into the sombce hablll-
| ments which were formerly almost universal.
A NEW WORD has been coined in Franco to
| represent very rich Ameri can. 1t is not
| sufficient to c&ll him 'milionaire," he is a
"miliardaire." In fact. such is the present
| eXtraVagant European notion of the fabulous
| wealth Of the American railroad kings, that
| an American who is mere 'mllliOnalre"
| has ceased to be regarded in Paris as a man
| OF pecunlary Importance.
ACCORDING to u bill before the Massachu-
| setts Legislature, no report of any execution
OF criminal can be published, under PEN
atty OF $500. The prisoners counsel can au-
tnorlze the publication of the criminals inal
confession. declarations, or remarks, which
means, it is suggested, that the said counsel
can sell to some newspaper the last words of
a criminal and make quite q good thing out
of 1t.
ONE OF the most vigorous women Of her age
in the country is Mrs. Priscilla Goodsell, Of
Redding. Conn.,. who has just celebrated her
| one hundredth birthday. She walks about
unalded, ami her mind Is apparently as Wig
Orous as ever. Another hale Cd person is
Capt. VIM. Jack Hal mes, of ST. LOUIS. who
was with Jackson at New Orleans, and eX-
poets to celebrate his centennial birthday
neXGfa
WICKED coy, who promised to give an en-
craving OF Washington to aid in the decora-
ton of a schoolrOom in Massachusetts town
on the anniversary of the birth of the Father
of his Ountry, gravelv handed his teacher on
the day of the celebration an envelope with
two-cent stamp upon it. THIS was OF no
10 the schoolmarm. Who had left large space
In the evergreen trimmings upon The wall to
receive tine promised picture.
THE steamer Quckstep, while operating a
trawl net for Goldfish last Tuesday in the sound
near Browns Point, w. T., caught a shark
which measured Q feet in length and must
have weighed between 400 an 500 pounds
The man eater was brought to land and cut
open. In his stomach was found one gum
boot, nanne' shirt, shoe and q good-siZed
goldfish. The shark had evidently been living
high.
IT is estimated that there are as many as
10000 suicides in Europe every year. The
largest number of suicides in proportion to
the population take place in Paris; then come
Vienna, Berlin, New York and London, IN the
order named. In Austria it has been noticed
that Young women of >lavonic nationality are
more liable to suicidal impulses Than German
girls, and in Italy and France thu number of
female suicides is larger than in GERMANY.
AN exhibition of food products is to be held
at Amsterdam, Holland, june December
1887. The large consumption OF all kinds of
American products in Holland makes 1t a
matter OF great interest to dealers in cereals
canned goods. etc., to take part in this exhl-
btion. In addition to articles Of food al i'm
pements needed for the proper prepa -ation
OF the same may also be sent, while course
OF lectures appropriate to food, its prepara-
ton. etc. is to be given.
GEORGE W, .MoNIsTY was a slave, and was
sold from his parents in 1858, being taken to
Mississippi. He subsequently served as n
Union soldier all through the war, and finally
settled at Lafayette, Ind. While at the Wa
bash Station recently George fancied ne
recognized two cOlored women who were
passing EN- route to Iowa. The RECOGNITION
was mutual. and with tears, cries of Joy, and
embraces, the mother, brother and sister
came together after a separation of thirty
three years.
LADY from the South who is visiting Bos-
ton, complains of the little Difference which
young gentlemen of the North pay young
| ladies. She says that they lack the gentle
breeding of Southern cavaliers. The lady
also says that North if o lady is seen twice
with the same gentlemen. she is straight x av
reported as zen aged" by industrious gossips.
In her home, in Georgia, she asserts, a gentle
man may escort lady to any mum Der OF pri-
vate parties or places of public amusement,
without being considered anything more than
friend.
ABRAHtM GOULD, Jay Gould's brother,
formerly lived in Salt Lake. and the Tribune
says Of him: MANY was the generous act
performed by him while here. He had a
fondness for surprising very poor people by
unloading coal and chickens and turEe eva and
vegetables in their back Yards, and when
questioned not knowing anything about the
affair He WAS fond of assuming to be a man
with bad eye who could not be approached,
except through much red tape, when all the
time his heart was as soft as a sick oyster or a
boarding house olive"
MRS. MARTIN CRAvENs, residing near
Clarks Fork, Cooper county, Mo, has In her
hennery quite curiosity in the shape of
young chicken which was hatched from what
is known as double egg. 1t has four per
fectly formed legs and feet and two heads
pointing opposite TO each other, but only one
body. In eating only one bill pecks the food
at time, ana one head seems almost !ifeless
when the other chirps. In running around
the hen-house, however. the two heads do not
always agree, one head and a par of legs trv-
ing to go TO the right, the other heading for
the left. Mrs. Cravens INKS she has quite a
treasure in this strange freak of nature and
if il lives until spring she will offer it for sale
TO some museum.
JOHN A. ELDER, the Richmond artist, who
has been at Beauvor, Miss, engaged in paint
ing portrait of the Hon. Jefferson Dav
writes to a friend: 81 am using Miss Win
mes little studio to work in. IL adjoins her
fathers library, which gives me an oppor-
tuniCy to see Mr.. Davis nearly every honr in
the day. My picture is finished. and gives
satisfaction. have painted Mr.. Davis stand
ing IN the attitude OF speaking. one hand ex-
tended, the Otner resting on the constitution.
living on the table, on which are his books and
the sword he used In the Mexican war There
o hasnot been day that some friends or stran-
gers have not visited Beauvoir. ,top't see
how he stands the tax. but he always has a
smiling greeting for all. He comes in m,
room every twilight to have talk, and tell
you 1t is q treat.
THE German Imperial Printing Office at
Berlin employs ninety-fve artists aud artists,
assistants, and the workmen, apprentices.
lads and Y rls number no. The amount OF
work turned out there In the interest of the
government IL enormous. The different Ger
man ana Pru~sian Govern
ment cfices absorb together IN common
printings about l20. 600 600 sheets: the uo.t
and telegraph ID 900 000 sheets and 60 600 600
forms, cards, etc. The mum Der 81 notes exc
from the thousand mark note down to the
lowest priced post stamp. printed during tue
last business year mt the Imperial Office
amounted to l,li3,56O 900, OF the value OF